Are Analysts Pounding the Table on Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE:FBHS)?

September 17, 2017Sarah Corning

Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE:FBHS) currently has an Average Broker Rating of 2.08. This number is based on the 12 sell-side firms polled by Zacks. The ABR rank within the industry stands at 13.

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Analysts on a consensus basis are expecting that the stock will reach $70.94 within the year. The ABR is provided by Zacks which simplfies analyst ratings into an integer based number. They use a one to five scale where they translate brokerage firm Buy/Sell/Hold recommendations into an average broker rating. A low number in the 1-2 range typically indicates a Buy, 3 represents a Hold and 4-5 represents a consensus Sell rating.

Research analysts study publicly traded companies and make recommendations on the securities of those companies. Most specialize in a particular industry or sector of the economy. They exert considerable influence in today’s marketplace. Analysts’ recommendations or reports can influence the price of a company’s stock—especially when the recommendations are widely disseminated through television appearances or through other electronic and print media. The mere mention of a company by a popular analyst can temporarily cause its stock to rise or fall—even when nothing about the company’s prospects or fundamentals has recently changed.

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EarningsResearch analysts are predicting that Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE:FBHS) will report earnings of $0.83 per share when the firm issues their next quarterly report. This is the consensus earnings per share number according to data from Zack’s Research.

Most recently Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE:FBHS) posted quarterly earnings of $0.92 which compared to the sell-side estimates of 0.86. The stock’s 12-month trailing earnings per share stands at $2.96. Shares have moved $2.78 over the past month and more recently, $2.33 over the past week heading into the earnings announcement. There are 7 analyst projections that were taken into consideration from respected brokerage firms.

Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE:FBHS)closed the last session at $64.43 and sees an average of 841284 shares trade hands in each session. The 52-week low of the stock stands at $52.31 while the current level stands at 80.85% of the 52-week High-Low range. Looking further out we can see that the stock has moved -1.01% over the past 12 weeks and 20.52% year to date.

Buy Ratings6 analysts rate Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. a Buy or Strong Buy, which is 50% of all the analyst ratings.

This article is informational purposes only and should not be considered a recommendation to buy or sell the stock.